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The economics of public spending : debts, deficits, and economic performance

Bougrine, Hassan (ed.) - 2000

to achieve full employment with high wages, more generous social programmes and sustainable inflation. This fascinating …

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Classical economics, public expenditure, and growth

Eltis, Walter - 1993

Walter Eltis's work has played a major role in the rediscovery of the policy relevance of classical economics. His articles on Smith, Quesnay, Ricardo and Malthus, where he derives their underlying economic argument from a detailed examination of their principal publications, led to the Bacon...

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Fiscal federalism and political decentralization : lessons from Spain, Germany, and Canada

Durán, José María (contributor); … - 2008

This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key issues required for a well designed financing system are...

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Modelling the composition of government expenditure

Creedy, John - 2011

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The economics of evaluation in public programs

Link, Albert N. - 2011

. Weisbrod (1981), 'Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Controlled Experiment: Treating the Mentally Ill', Journal of Human Resources, XVI …, Stanley Sacks, Karen McKendrick and George De Leon (2002), 'Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Modified Therapeutic Community for … competing visions of benefit-cost analysis', Land Economics, 85, 3-23. -- Bewley, T.F. (1981), 'A critique of Tiebout's theory …

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Financing decentralized expenditures : an international comparison of grants

Ahmad, Ehtisham (ed.) - 1997

Financing Decentralized Expenditures presents new original research papers on the structure of intergovernmental fiscal relations in virtually all types of countries and the design and implementation of transfer mechanisms between different levels of government. In developing, transition, and...

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Public goods and private wants : a psychological approach to government spending

Kemp, Simon - 2002

How valuable to us are the activities of government? Public Goods and Private Wants explores psychological approaches to public economics in order to answer this question. The contributions of economists and political scientists to the study of government spending are discussed, and subjective...

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The growth of the public sector : theories and international evidence

Gemmell, Norman (ed.) - 1993

At a time when there is growing concern in many countries over the funding of expanding public sectors, this important new book brings together leading specialists in public finance to re-examine the economics of public sector growth. Several chapters document changes in the size of the public...

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The political economy of the New Deal

Couch, Jim F.; Shughart, William F. - Locke Institute - 1998

adopted by the New Dealers through a detailed analysis of the distribution of federal emergency relief funds. The authors … were required to bear more of the cost of financing projects. The results from this analysis suggest that while economic …

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Greening the budget : budgetary policies for environmental improvement

Clinch, J. Peter (contributor) - 2002

Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...

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